One Tin Soldier is a 1960’s era protest song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. It was first recorded by the Canadian group The Original Castle in 1969. It was recorded in 1971 by The American group Coven and it reached number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was featured in the…
I am a North Carolinian, who immigrated to Chicago and adapted to life in one of the world’s great cities. Yet, the South has a place in my heart. Every visit to Louisville, Kentucky feels like home coming. Louisville is located on the Ohio River, a trade route since the West was settled in…
The road from Chicago to Louisville can seem longer than the five and a half hour drive the journey is supposed to take. Especially if you happen to run into a time-killing-slow-crawl traffic jam in the Chicago metro area. We’d been on the road for a while and were just past Indianapolis. Our joints…
Thursday evening is the regular meeting of the Baraboo Philosophy Discussion Group held at the Log Cabin Cafe. Here one of the participants expresses an opinion on Plato’s Parmenides. Okay, okay –the Discussion Group exists only in my imagination. The Log Cabin Restaurant in Baraboo Wisconsin is “real” though. The establishment is exceptional on…
Went for a walk on Sunday Oct 9th about 3PM in the afternoon. The wind was rustling the tall pines. I stood on the narrow spit of sand at the edge of the lake. The air was cool, giving hint of frost after sunset. A breeze lapped the lake surface; creating a big plate…
What we see comes from that which is not apparent. This statement is axiomatic for us, becoming embedded in the DNA of our culture since the rise of science as a basis for knowledge. Did it all began when Galileo pointed his 10x homemade refracting telescope at the moon, and discovered, saw with his…
Emanating from a cathedral the center of Rome, a line of ten thousand people stretches radially outward, like the hand of a giant clock, out to the edge of the city, and beyond. Yet these patient pilgrims are directed inward, not out. They are waiting their turn to enter the Temple of Time. They…
There are times when I’m exhausted by life. Conflict and stress are consequences of being a sentient being. With few useful instincts we depend upon learning and emotional intelligence to “earn our living.”–by a paradox of cooperation and competition with others. This is what we mean by society. It’s more complicated than we know. …
Distracted by the atypical warm weather, I did not notice the advent of Fall on September 22nd. Here in the Midwest we’ve had days in the high 80’s late into the month. Quite unusual for the Chicago area. A few maples show a hint of color in my neighborhood. On Sunday September 25th I…
Saturday Sept 24th was the final Nitrous Shootout of the season at Great Lakes Dragway. The dragstrip is a gathering place for those addicted to creating compression of time over a quarter mile. A final big race day of the season drew a sizable crowd of crew members, drivers, families, and fans–all deserving of…
